Crime and the media
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- Crime and the media
- Media content and crime
- Research on content
- Chris Greer and Robert Reiner
- Increase in coverage of crime over recent decades
- Tendency for tabloids to devote a higher proportion of their spaces to crime
- Chris Greer and Robert Reiner
- Offenders in the media
- Peelo
- Only 40% of homicides were reported nationally
- Tim Newburn
- coverage can be misleading
- Peelo
- The selection of content: pluralism
- Yvonne Jewkes
- Pluralists argue that with the advent of social media of the internet and social media, the media has become even more diverse
- Yvonne Jewkes
- The selection of content: news values
- Yvonne Jewkes
- There are specific news values applying to crime stories
- Yvonne Jewkes
- Crime and the construction of reality
- Stan Cohen and Jock Young
- That was a manufactured picture of society present in crime news
- Robert Reiner
- Three trends evident in crime coverage:
- It accentuates the negative
- Highlights victim culture
- Law and order situations
- Three trends evident in crime coverage:
- Stan Cohen and Jock Young
- Research on content
- The effects of the media on crime
- Types of effect
- Greer and Reiner
- Identified the following criminogenic effects of the media:
- Opportunity
- Absence of controls
- Means
- Motive
- Identified the following criminogenic effects of the media:
- Greer and Reiner
- Evidence about the media as a direct cause of crime
- Newburn
- Greater numbers of violent people choose to watch more violent programmes and the content itself has no effect on their behavior
- Greer and Reiner
- A number of factors influence whether there are effects from witnessing violence or other types of crime
- Yvonne Jewkes
- Media are opej to multiple interpretations
- Newburn
- Types of effect
- Other effects of media coverage
- Greer and Reiner
- The media can play an important role in helping to create new types of offence
- Schlesinger and Tumber
- Those who were most likely to read tabloid newspapers were more likely to be afraid of being victims of crime
- Jewkes
- Fear of crime is difficult to measure
- Moral panics
- McRobbie and Thornton
- the concept of 'moral panics' is outdated
- Stanley Cohen
- It remains a useful concept because it allows insights into power in society
- McRobbie and Thornton
- Positive effects of the media on crime
- Media coverage can help solve crimes and locate suspects
- Can alert the public to the dangers of different types of crime
- Media campaigns and public awareness can put pressure on governments to change laws and take action
- Media can help define moral boundaries
- Media can deter crime by highlighting criminal punishment
- Greer and Reiner
- Media content and crime
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